Off-Site Program: Approaching Ellen Pau at Asia Art Archive in America

Off-Site Program at Asia Art Archive in America
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Join us for a whirlwind introduction to Ellen Pau’s work by the artist herself, presented at Asia Art Archive in America in conjunction with the survey exhibition Ellen Pau: She Moves—Pau’s first-ever solo show in the United States.

Pau will offer an artist lecture and presentation followed by a conversation with exhibition curator Freya Chou.

Ellen Pau (b. 1961, Hong Kong) is an artist, curator, and educator who has played a major role in the development and promotion of Hong Kong’s art scene. She co-founded Videotage, an influential Hong Kong media arts organization, in 1986, and founded the related Microwave International New Media Arts Festival in 1996. Her work has been shown in film festivals and exhibitions worldwide, including the first Kwangju Biennale (1995); the second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1996); the Liverpool Biennial (2003); Para Site, Hong Kong (2018); Taipei Biennial (2023); and Sharjah Biennial (2025). In 2001, Pau exhibited in the debut Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Acknowledging Pau’s contribution to the development of video art in Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong) holds a comprehensive archive dedicated to her work.

Freya Chou is a Taiwan-born curator, writer, and editor. Her curatorial work, showcasing global contemporary art from the perspective of East Asia, demonstrates a commitment to bringing together diverse publics and foregrounding the rich interconnections between visual, performing, and literary arts. She is co-curator of “New Visions 2027” – the forthcoming Henie Onstad Triennial of Photography and New Media in Oslo. From 2015 to 2019, she worked at Para Site in Hong Kong as the institution’s inaugural Curator of Education and Public Programs. Her notable curatorial projects include “Small World” Taipei Biennial 2023, co-curated with Brian Kuan Wood and Reem Shadid; Curatorial Council member of the 58th Carnegie International (2022); Hong Kong’s participation at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); and the 10th Shanghai Biennial (2014), among others.

Asia Art Archive in America (AAAinA), founded in 2009, is an independently established and operated U.S. 501(c)3, and the first overseas hub of Asia Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong. AAAinA’s mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible information on contemporary art from and of Asia, in order to facilitate public understanding and specialized research to instigate dialogue and critical thinking, and to raise awareness of and support for the activities of AAA globally. To achieve this goal, AAAinA maintains a reading room in Brooklyn, New York which is open to the public free of charge, and comprises over 5,000 monographs, exhibition catalogs, reference books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials about contemporary art related to Asia. AAAinA also organizes a regular program of talks, screenings, workshops, participatory projects, exhibitions, residencies, and panels with artists, curators, critics, and scholars in the field.